Clinical trial of installed brain chip in a quadriplegia sufferer allows access to the internet via ”mind control” of the cursor - successful enough to trial another one in another individual

From here:

Neuralink’s First User Describes Life with Elon Musk’s Brain Chip | Scientific American

“Noland Arbaugh has a computer chip embedded in his skull and an electrode array in his brain. But Arbaugh, the first user of the Neuralink brain-computer interface, or BCI, says he wouldn’t know the hardware was there if he didn’t remember going through with the surgery.”

“What Neuralink has done, however, is condense multiple advances into a single implantable, intracortical, wireless device. “They’ve kind of taken the best of everything that I’ve seen and put it all together,” says Jennifer Collinger, a biomedical engineer and associate professor at the University of Pittsburgh.”

“To power up his implant, Arbaugh dons a hat with an embedded wireless charger—a big change from the plug-in BCIs still used in many research settings.”

“In the meantime, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has green-lit Neuralink’s plans to move forward with the clinical trial and implant a second device in another person.”

“Arbaugh says he uses his device for hours at a time to browse the Web, send text messages, scroll social media, navigate apps and—perhaps most importantly—play video games. Online chess and the world-building strategy game Civilization VI have been his favorites.”

All power to Arbaugh – on can only imagine the improvement I his quality of liv.

There’s a lot more in the article – including a bug abut “retractor threads” and a few other issues.

Onwards!!!

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